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The history of machine translation companies begins in the defence and intelligence sector.

Other players, from technology giants to translation agencies to the European Union, increasingly build their own machine translation.

Since the advent of statistical machine translation and neural machine translation, there are growth companies backed by venture capital.

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2020

Viva Translate

Raised pre-seed from Blue Ridge Foundation and $4M from General Catalyst, AIX Ventures, Fellows Fund, Hyphen Capital, First Check Ventures and angels

2019

ModelFront

2018

ImageTranslate

2017

Language I/O

Raised $5.5M from Gutbrain, PBJ, Omega and angels

2016

Kites

Acquired by Zoom in 2021

Intento

Raised $4M from Berkeley Skydeck and angels

Lingvanex

2015

Lilt

Raised $37.5M from Sequoia, Redpoint, XSeed, Zetta and In-Q-Tel

Lexy

Raised from Slow Ventures and dissolved

2014

Lengoo

Raised $26.6M from INKEF, Redalpine, Polipo, Techstars, Creathor, Piton and angels

2013

Unbabel

Raised $91.2M from Caixa, Samsung, Scale, Notion, Faber, Greycroft, Structure, M12 and Headline

Iconic Translation Machines

Acquired by SDL/RWS for $20M in 2020

Waverly Labs

Raised $7.1M in crowdfunding

2011

Lingua Custodia

Raised €2.7M from private investors

KantanMT

Acquired by Keyword for €7M in 2019

2009

DeepL

Raised from Benchmark and btov

Safaba

Acquired by Amazon to create Amazon Translate in 2015

Quest Visual

Acquired for its WordLens app by Google Translate in 2014

2006

Tauyou

Acquired by TransPerfect in 2018

Omniscien Technologies

2002

Language Weaver

Acquired by SDL/RWS for $42.5M in 2010

2000

Pangeanic

1999

Translated

Raised $30M from Ardian and others

1998

Reverso

1991

Tilde

Granted €98.8K by the European Union

PROMT

Raised from Svarog Capital Advisors in 2008

1990

AppTek

Raised from SOS International

1968

SYSTRAN

Owned by STIC and Softbank